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Re: Google I/O

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Post by layer8 » Tue, May 19, 2026, 5:42 PM UTC

alizardguy wrote: post #19

martypitt wrote: post #2

I wonder if they'll talk about AI?

I honestly don't know what I expected, but wow it really is just only ai

“AI is all you need.”

Re: Google I/O

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Post by londons_explore » Tue, May 19, 2026, 5:42 PM UTC

babl-yc wrote: post #25

Interesting that the 3.5 Flash launches before 3.5 Pro. Historically it's been the reverse for Gemini since Flash is distilled from Pro? Are they just training it a bit longer until it tops benchmarks?

3.5 flash is presumably cheaper to run than pro too... Perhaps the company is compute constrained like everyone else is?

Re: Google I/O

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Post by londons_explore » Tue, May 19, 2026, 5:44 PM UTC

miohtama wrote: post #22

martypitt wrote: post #2

I wonder if they'll talk about AI?

Maybe Google will finally launch a working coding agent

Antigravity seemed to work well at first, but the same model on the same software now seems to fail to edit most files most of the time, and then get itself tied in knots trying to resolve the error by editing files with awk, sed, grep, etc!

Re: Google I/O

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Post by scosman » Tue, May 19, 2026, 5:44 PM UTC

"Join the livestream" button does nothing?

Re: Google I/O

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Post by scosman » Tue, May 19, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

pingou wrote: post #27

kreddor wrote: post #17

Couldn't get the "Join the livestream" button to work in Firefox on desktop. No problem in Chrome.

Couldn't get it to work on Chrome. Had to find the stream on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYSncx9zLIU

Doesn't work on Chrome or safari for me

Re: Google I/O

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Post by layer8 » Tue, May 19, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

re-thc wrote: post #4

martypitt wrote: post #2

I wonder if they'll talk about AI?

AGI now surely!

ML + AGI = GMAIL

Re: Google I/O

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Post by LetsGetTechnicl » Tue, May 19, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

"AI Mode" usage is up month over month. Almost like because they forced it upon everyone. Once again, is there any real AI demand?

Re: Google I/O

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Post by devinprater » Tue, May 19, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

smallmancontrov wrote: post #20

tardedmeme wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ASI now. You'd think contrasted with AGI it would be Artificial Specialized Intelligence, but it's Artificial Super Intelligence. Since AGI already happened and didn't mean anything, the next step is a super AI.

Oh yeah? My dad works on a super duper AI. It's much better than a super AI.

Mine works on a Super Dee Duper AI!

Re: Google I/O

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Post by londons_explore » Tue, May 19, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

sjhatfield wrote: post #3

I wonder if they will finally GA new flash and pro gemini models

They will. They've been falling behind on the benchmarks for a few months, and I bet that's because they're waiting for IO.

Re: Google I/O

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Post by jerrygarcia » Tue, May 19, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

Demo: avoid getting to know your neighbors by letting your AI agent plan the neighborhood lock party